Event Detail

Thursday, April 25, 2013

Alnoor Ebrahim will speak on the challenges of designing the
governance structures of international NGOs engaged in policy
advocacy. He will discuss cases of ten global organizations that
have restructured the relationships between their international
headquarters and their national units or members over the past
decade. In doing so, they have innovated with the core problem of
how to increase central authority while maintaining local
legitimacy. This work is part of a research project jointly
conducted with colleagues L. David Brown and Srilatha Batliwala.
http://hausercenter.harvard.edu/?p=1893 Alnoor Ebrahim is an
Associate Professor in the General Management Unit, and in the
Social Enterprise Initiative, at the Harvard Business School. His
research and teaching focus on the challenges of performance
management, accountability, and governance facing social sector
organizations. He is also a principal of Harvard University’s
Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations.